numbers 121, this shows what protection will do for antelope on a range of their 

 own selection. The sum total as shown in the antelope census appears to be a 

 sizable figure, but it must be understood that these antelope are scattered in 

 forty-five bands, and perhaps more, over fourteen states and averaging from ten 

 to five hundred in a band. 



There are some facts of vital importance concerning the present status of the 

 antelope that are not generally known to the public. The first is, the antelope 

 has been driven from its natural habitat to a more mountainous region where the 

 lack of food and deep snow take an annual toll much larger than in former years 

 on the plains and foothills, but this is not the principal cause of their rapid 

 extinction, there are a number of contributive causes, principally four. The first 

 and greatest is their wholesale destruction by a certain class of foreign unnaturalized 

 sheepherders who have no respect for laws of any kind. The second is the I'ome- 

 steader and small farmers who are annually reaching out farther into the last 

 ranges of the antelope. It is almost impossible for these dry-farmers to eke out 

 an existence under the most favorable circumstances, so, naturally they kill what- 

 ever game they can find, regardless of laws, for in that part of the country it is 

 very difficult to apprehend one killing game either on his own land or on that 

 adjoining. The third cause is the automobile, or, to be more exact, the creature 

 who in a spirit of unfairness, in an unmanly and unsportsmanlike manner, deliber- 

 ately drives his machine after the fleeing antelope for no other purpose than to 

 overtake and destroy it, and in this manner a number of promising bands in the 

 prairie country havei been swept out of existence. No true sportsman would ever 

 employ such a method, he believes in fairness always, even to the creatures of 

 the wild. 



The fourth is a more natural one but nevertheless a dangerous one. The 

 foothills and mountainous parts of the country where the antelope have taken 

 refuge, is also the home of the wolf and bobcat. When the antelope is helpless 

 in the deep snow it falls an easy prey to the wolf, and then again, in the spring 

 when the antelope kids are born these timid little creatures often furnish a 

 tender meal for the ever-hungry wolf, but this is nature's way of keeping a balance 

 and has never jeopardized or caused a total extinction of any species without 

 the help of man. 



The Prong Horn Antelope is found nowhere on the face of the earth except 

 in North America; they are rapidly disappearing and are now on the verge of 

 extinction, and unless prompt measures are taken for their preservation, they will 

 soon be gone forever. 



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